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Reading age
10+
Genre
Horror Fiction/Mystery
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Publication date
August 29, 2023
A boy and a girl have just scratched the surface of the truth of their town, Tremorglade.
Ansel, or Sel, a thirteen-year-old boy, had always lived almost ordinarily in Tremorglade. I mean almost because people 14 and over turn into werewolves, or Rippers as the town calls it, because of a disease called Corpus Pilori that has turned nearly every human this way since the Disruption. Things went as always until pigeons started acting weirdly one Confinement night and rained on his bully, Ingrid. Suddenly, everything is not what it seems anymore, and Sel and his best friend, Elena, have just begun discovering the truth about Tremorglade…
This book has the perfect setting in a remote town full of secrets, which makes an excellent mysterious and slightly creepy atmosphere to the story. The disease that turned people into werewolves was a good idea. The book also had a dystopian vibe and a good mystery with plot twists.
Sel is your average teenage boy, and he made me laugh a couple of times. Elena is a good friend. Pedro (Elena’s older brother) was superb. Ingrid (whose name is the same as my aunt’s) wasn’t particularly nice. Harold was a bit eccentric.
With its expert plotting, great characters, a dystopia vibe, and a cliffhanger that you could not have imagined, Bite Risk is a master-class horror fiction/mystery for tween readers.
My rating
